No Box for Me. An Intersex Story
Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2019
June 13 - 20, 2019
Deborah and M were born with variations in their sex characteristics different from classical understandings of male or female. For M, growing up intersex has meant grappling with the fact that she underwent unnecessary surgeries to “normalize” her body as a child. But when M finds Deborah online, she is introduced to new voices, language, and representations that allow her to expand her understanding of who she is.
Extended Q&A to follow with filmmaker Floriane Devigne, film subject “M” and Kyle Knight, Researcher, LGBT Program at Human Rights Watch, moderated by Maria Tridas, Video Journalist at Teen Vogue
Deborah, 25, and M, 27, are living in bodies that Western medicine — and often society — deems taboo. Like an estimated 1.7 percent of people, they were born with variations in their sex characteristics that were different from classical understandings of male or female. For M, growing up intersex has also meant grappling with the fact that she underwent medically unnecessary surgeries to “normalize” her body as a very young child. But when M finds Deborah online, she is introduced to new voices, language, and representations that allow her to expand her understanding of who she is beyond medical terms. This beautifully crafted, poetic documentary joins brave young people as they seek to reappropriate their bodies and explore their identities, revealing both the limits of binary visions of sex and gender, and the irreversible physical and psychological impact of non-consensual surgeries on intersex infants.
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